Luminous
Droplets
Leave tress
And raiment
Wet with jewels
Tasting
Just one
Could cure my thirst
Forever
###
Dawn, Dec. 16, 2008
Coiled together
Wrapped in the sheets
Of a secret cloud we have folded
And folded again
Still
She feels
She must
Rise
To make the day whole
###
Dawn, Dec. 15, 2008
Ragged
Strips of muslin
Strewn to the doldrum sky
And rendered clean
In shining suds
Where night and morning lie
Now pinned and pinned and dripping
In more temperate clime
To dry
###
Dawn, Dec. 14, 2008
A stretch
A yawn
Her spine
Unreeling
Into the bed of night
Tilts her face
To sky
And the glittered trail
Of three fallen stars
Now gone
###
Dawn, Dec. 13, 2008
This day she
Shares
Her hued dome
With Artemis
Her twin for a day
An hour
An angle of moments
One grows
One wanes
Not to be seen like this
Until my love is again
My own
###
Dawn, Dec. 12, 2008
Toiling through night
The faeries
Have dressed the proscenium
In crystalline white
Neither stage
Nor star
Could achieve such
Glistening splendor
Alone
###
Dawn, Dec. 11, 2008
Could she
But spare me
One day
I would sink
Into self-warmed slumber
And dream her
###
Dawn, Dec. 10, 2008
I am
The zoetrope’s
Edge
She
Its center
With all the world
Dancing
Between
###
Dawn, Dec. 9, 2008
Silent
She will not speak
The secrets of my heart
###
Dawn, Dec. 8, 2008
Strewn in her path
The leaves of an autumn lust
Dead
Petals of your answer do
With a spare
Stem
###
Dawn, Dec. 7, 2008
Toward morning
Now
I turn my face
And hope
That she carries
Her own light
###
Dawn, Dec. 6, 2008
If it were warm
And you were here
We could generate a glow
That might be
Her rival
###
Dawn, Dec. 5, 2008
With dogged certainty
I stand at slack attention
Awaiting
The return
###
Dawn, Dec. 4, 2008
The failed glow
Of western sky
Is deepest when it’s gone
I choose her tones
In bright array
The rising light of dawn
###
Dawn, Dec. 3, 2008
Each spindle of day glow
A shiv
Stuck deep
Twixt rib and sternum
###
Dawn, Dec. 2, 2008
This tension
Between arc and ray
Pendulum and
Spring
Is a promise at sunset
Unredeemed
With each new day
###
Dawn, Dec. 1, 2008
I carry the watchman’s
Clock
In dreamy rounds
I grope from key to key
Each turn
A new record of the time I make
And she keeps
###
Dawn, Nov 30, 2008
And so unfurls
With swing and sway
The man made shift
In year, month, day
Which does but mark
On sheaf or clay
These temporal cords
Which tend to fray
###
Dawn, Nov. 29, 2008
Until today
My Heart was filled
But
Never full
Until today
The sun
On axis
Was a mobile
Until today
Life
In glittering
Humors
Was a mystery
Until today
I
Did not know heaven
###
Dawn, Nov. 28, 2008
She greets me ever later
On days
So cold
They break
Dawn, Nov. 27, 2008
I rise
In darkness
And draw from night
A waning
Breath
To lift the fog
The cool of my window’s
Frame
Antidote
To my interior furnace
A crucible unquenched
By molten soul
And daily pourings
In the shape of her hands
###
Dawn, Nov. 26, 2008
I am a particle
Dust
Riding a solar wind
And as her cosmic fury
Sends me
Hurtling away
Through space
Her gravity
Draws
Me
In
###
Dawn, Nov. 25, 2008
To raise the ragged
Edge of day
To peel away the gloom
To shatter hasp
Release the light
Which darkness has entombed
To shear the bolts
With cautious speed
For night shall end its reign
And she shall fill
The yawning holes
Of hearts which bear her stain
###
Dawn, Nov. 24, 2008
She waits
In beauty
Like the night’s quiet
Her shadow
On me
The memory
Of a sweet dream
###
Dawn, Nov. 23, 2008
Frail night
So easily banished
She comes to send you home
###
Dawn, Nov. 22, 2008
We are the optimists
We two
I
Knowing that each day she might return
She
Knowing that I will stand watch for her
###
Dawn, Nov. 21, 2008
Encircled
Ensconced
Entranced
Enticed
Encouraged
Enraptured
Enlightened
###
Dawn, Nov. 20, 2008
No crossroads
No drumming fingers
On a worn map
No pencil from behind the ear
No scrawl
Of faded recollection
Just a simple
Well tended path
In morning light
###
Dawn, Nov. 19, 2008
Stark in her nudity
Arms stretched to the limits of day
No leaf
No bud
No winged brooch
To adorn her
She is mine
For the asking
###
Dawn, Nov. 18, 2008
It is better
To have loved
And in loving
Lost
And in loss
Discovered
A
Morning
Like
This
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